Time memory in social insects with a special focus on honey bees.

IF 5.8 1区农林科学 Q1 BIOLOGY

Current opinion in insect science Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI:10.1016/j.cois.2024.101327

Tiyasa Roy, Katharina Beer

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Abstract

The ability to associate time and location with food sources is an evolutionary advantage for foraging animals. We find highly sophisticated time memory capabilities especially in social insects, which require efficient foraging capabilities for colony provisioning. Honey bees are perfectly suitable to study time memory mechanisms: they possess an elaborated time memory combined with a relatively simple neuronal clock network and a smaller gene set compared with the mouse model organism. This review provides a short overview majorly across insects, which have demonstrated time memory capabilities, with a focus on time-place learning, and describes basic properties as well as state-of-the-art research connecting time memory with the circadian clock at the behavioral, molecular and neuroanatomical level. Despite a long history of research on time memory of honey bees, putative connections between clock and time memory have only recently been identified and imply a rather complex regulation mechanism with multiple signaling pathways.

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将时间和地点与食物来源联系起来的能力是觅食动物的一种进化优势。我们发现，社会性昆虫具有高度复杂的时间记忆能力，它们需要高效的觅食能力来为群体提供食物。蜜蜂非常适合研究时间记忆机制：与小鼠模式生物相比，蜜蜂拥有复杂的时间记忆，结合相对简单的神经元时钟网络和较小的基因组。这篇综述简要概述了主要表现出时间记忆能力的昆虫，重点是时间地点学习，并描述了时间记忆的基本特性以及在行为、分子和神经解剖学水平上将时间记忆与昼夜节律时钟联系起来的最新研究。尽管对蜜蜂时间记忆的研究由来已久，但时钟与时间记忆之间的假定联系直到最近才被发现，这意味着一种具有多种信号通路的相当复杂的调节机制。

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Current opinion in insect science BIOLOGYECOLOGYENTOMOLOGY-ECOLOGY

CiteScore

10.40

自引率

1.90%

发文量

113

期刊介绍： Current Opinion in Insect Science is a new systematic review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up–to–date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of Insect Science. As this is such a broad discipline, we have determined themed sections each of which is reviewed once a year. The following 11 areas are covered by Current Opinion in Insect Science. -Ecology -Insect genomics -Global Change Biology -Molecular Physiology (Including Immunity) -Pests and Resistance -Parasites, Parasitoids and Biological Control -Behavioural Ecology -Development and Regulation -Social Insects -Neuroscience -Vectors and Medical and Veterinary Entomology There is also a section that changes every year to reflect hot topics in the field. Section Editors, who are major authorities in their area, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasized. Section Editors commission articles from leading scientists on each topic that they have selected and the commissioned authors write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.